Caterina Fake,
co-founder of Flickr,
likes project teams small
and meetings to be short.
(My kind of executive)
“Follow Jeff Bezos’s two-pizza rule:
Project teams should be small enough
to feed with two pizzas.
At Hunch,
we don’t have meetings
unless absolutely necessary.
When I used to have meetings, though,
this is how I would do it:
There would be an agenda
distributed before the meeting.
Everybody would stand.
At the beginning of the meeting,
everyone would drink 16 ounces of water.
We would discuss everything on the agenda,
make all the decisions that needed to be made,
and the meeting would be over
when the first person
had to go to the bathroom.”
Small project teams
and short meetings
are effective.